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Monday, June 30, 2014

Saba Ahmed Unveiled

During
a recent Heritage Foundation event on Benghazi’s unanswered questions,
Brigitte Gabriel, President of Act! for America, proclaimed that the
peaceful majority have been irrelevant to history’s outcome when
tyrannists have had the power and motivation to destroy freedom. But a
Muslim audience member whose question prompted Brigitte’s comments,
insists she’s not irrelevant.
On June 16, 2014, The Benghazi Accountability Coalition, spearheaded
by Ginni Thomas, held a half-day seminar with a series of speakers to
raise issues regarding unanswered questions about the circumstances
surrounding the deaths of four American patriots at Benghazi.
Brigitte Gabriel was one of three speakers on the first panel. During
Q&A, a hijabbed Muslim woman standing in back of a packed audience
complained, “Salam Alechim, peace to you all. We portray Islam and all
Muslims as bad, but there are 1.8 billion followers of Islam. We have 8
million plus Muslim Americans in this country and I don’t see them
represented here.” She asked how the jihadist ideology can be fought
with weapons and stressed the need to bring Muslims to the table in
order to solve the problem.
After one panelist asserted that nobody on the panel thinks all
Muslims are the problem, Brigitte responded to the question. She noted
in her emphatic and dynamic voice how interesting it was that the panel
had not discussed Islam or Muslims, but the murder of those at Benghazi
and yet the questioner asked about Islam out of context. “Of course not
all [Muslims] are radical, but it’s 15 – 25% according to all the
world’s intelligence, which equals 180 – 300 million people dedicated to
the destruction of western civilization.” Brigitte went on to explain
that we should worry about the radicals because it is they would kill,
behead and massacre. Throughout history it was the radicals that drove
the agenda and “the peaceful majority were irrelevant”. This was true in
Nazi Germany, Communist Russia, China, and pre-World War II Japan.
Additionally, on September 11, 2001, it took only 19 hijackers out of
2.3 million Arab Muslims living in the U.S. to bring America to its
knees and kill almost 3000 Americans. “I’m glad you are here” Brigitte
said, “but where are the others speaking out?”
Additionally, Brigitte pointed out that instead of showing concern
about Benghazi, the questioner took the limelight to make a point about
peaceful, moderate Muslims. “It is time we take political correctness
and throw it in the garbage where it belongs!” The woman replied “as a
peaceful American Muslim, I would like to think I’m not that
irrelevant.” Moderator Chris Plante, jokingly asked “[W]ho is head of
the Muslim peace movement?” to which the woman replied “I guess it’s me
right now” and the audience applauded.
So who is was the Muslim woman in the audience and is she irrelevant?
As it turns out, the woman’s name is Saba Ahmed and she was not just
some innocuous audience member who happened to show up at a Heritage
Foundation event.
Saba was born in Pakistan and moved to Portland Oregon at age 12. She
has numerous academic degrees and a particular interest in protecting
the Islamic Ummah from America’s “useless wars.” She feels so
passionately about this that while in Portland, she became very active
in Democrat politics for years, even making an unsuccessful bid for
congress in 2012. As a candidate, her priority was to bring home all
American troops and cut military spending. “There is no need for them to
be in foreign countries”… “Drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan
are hurting our long term national security and will come back to haunt
us.”
After obtaining less than ½ percent of the vote, Saba switched her
registration to Republican. But her ideology hadn’t changed. She marched
in Occupy Portland, which had a large anti-Israel component, and was a
featured speaker. She argued that the Muslim world hates America and
therefore America should change her policies. She explained that Muslims
in foreign countries are suffering as a result of U.S. policies and
don’t have a voice. “We are their voice here in the United States”, she
proclaimed.
Despite claiming to be Republican, she was banned from the Oregon Tea
Party and the Washington County Republicans, not for her “Islamic
views” as she claims, but for false accusations of death threats.
Saba made an appearance at Glenn Beck’s 9/12 meeting in Oregon, and
while clinging onto a Koran, proclaimed that her faith is all she has.
In TV interviews with Sean Hannity and others, she refuses to denounce
any portion of Sharia law, arguing instead that “there are good and bad
things everywhere.” She dodges, deflects and avoids addressing the human
rights violations and tyranny committed in the name of Islam. When
she’s unable to duck a question, she always has an excuse. Hannity, for
example, asked Saba if she would denounce the law in Saudi Arabia that
disallows women outside the home without being accompanied by a male
relative. Saba replied, “I wouldn’t feel comfortable going outside alone
in parts of Afghanistan. I wouldn’t want to.” Yet, she whines that,
“especially in America, it’s a very harsh environment [for Muslims] due
to the bias.”
Not surprisingly, Saba denies the right of Israel to have its current
boundaries and argues that the boundaries for Israel after 1948 have
caused “division among people all around the world.” And in an
interview, when confronted with the fact that there’s nothing in
Christianity comparable to Islamic terrorism, she replied, “[T]he United
States Military and CIA are the most well-funded Christian
organizations that regularly conduct crimes against humanity all around
the world. Currently we are killing and murdering people in Libya,
Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq. etc. with our
drones, missiles, bombs, etc. What is the practical difference between a
soldier who kills and an Al-Qaida operative the kills??? Both in God’s
eyes are taking sacred life…”
Yet, as someone who insists she is against all killing, Saba still
has ties to Mohamed Mohamud, a Somali born Islamic terrorist who
attempted to bomb a Christmas tree lighting in Portland, Oregon in 2010.
She even showed up at his trial to provide him support. When a mosque
was torched in response to the bomb attempt, Saba blamed the U.S.
government for “inciting violence” and warned, “[W]e will take very
serious action – politically and legally – against the government for
this.”
It’s no wonder coming from a woman who has attended CAIR’s Iftar
dinner and was a member of the Islamic Society of Greater Portland (an
outgrowth of ISNA). Both CAIR and ISNA are Muslim Brotherhood
affiliates, whose mission is to destroy western civilization from
within. They were also unindicted co-conspirators in the largest terror
financing trial in the history of the United States.
Saba claims that she was Co-Chair of the Oregon Muslims Citizens
Alliance, which, if it exists, has no website and appears to have had no
activities except one “cancelled” event, which research confirms was
never planned to begin with.
Saba has interned for Democratic politicians including Governor Ted
Kulongoski, Senator Leahy and Representative Earl Blumenauer. She
currently has an LLC or at least a website which appears to represent an
LLC. According to blogger Ernest Dell, originally the website indicated
that Saba Ahmed, LLC represented a global investment and intellectual
property research service, with its corporate office in Portland, Oregon
and its research center in New Delhi, India. The site stated that the
company had a high end financial research team comprised of experts on a
variety of asset classes, and provided services to investment banks,
equity firms, asset management firms, financial advisory firms, and
additionally had an “intellectual property team” that serviced law
firms, in intellectual property firms, in-house IP corporate counsels.
Now Saba states that her LLC is a firm from which she lobbies
Congress to stop all wars, claiming “expertise” in national security
matters, despite any objective training or experience. The current site
indicates no employees other than Saba and lists no clients. And despite
her Republican registration, she is seeking a political appointment
with the Obama Administration. Though insisting that she’s in
“discussions” toward this end, there is no evidence that the interest is
mutual or that it is anything more than Saba expressing her
self-aggrandizing desire to land a plumb political position.
Brigitte Gabriel never denounced the peaceful majority of any country
when she asserted their irrelevance. Clearly, what she meant is that
the focus needs to be on the problem. And the problem is always the
radical minority who may have less numbers, but has the power to
undermine freedom and security.
Saba appears to be worming her way into politics, not to represent
Americans or U.S. interests, but to represent the Muslim world. She says
she doesn’t want to be irrelevant, but given her pro-Sharia apologetics
and her advocacy for peace at the cost of freedom, let’s hope that she
is.

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It began with this...

The British Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1917Dear Lord Rothschild,I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate theachievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities inPalestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.2

Signed,Arthur James Balfour[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]

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